I’ve always felt that the key to a successful performance is including the audience as a part of the picture … it keeps the energy of the show up.
![A photo from the stage of the audience at a Metallica concert in Mexico City](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/MEX-4-smaller-1024x681.jpg)
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![A close up photo of the singer Jewel performing in a Fox Family Network Christmas Special](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/jewel2.jpg)
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![A photo of Josh Groban performing on the 2011 Straight to You tour](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/JG-2-cropped.jpg)
![A photo of Madonna in silhouette](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/mdna-VH1silhouet.jpg)
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![A photo of Metallica performing underneath the statue of justice on the Through the Never tour stage](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/DSC_8337-1024x678.jpg)
SLC Deseret News
A visually stunning stage show in the round
![A photo of Metallica performing on the Through the Never tour stage](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TTN-DSCN3068-1024x768.jpg)
![A photo of Metallica performing on the Through the Never tour stage](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TTN-IMG_4493-FIXR-small-1024x682.jpeg)
![A photo of Metallica performing on the Through the Never tour stage](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_5815-small-1024x682.jpeg)
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![A photo of Metallica performing on the And Justice for All tour](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/mtl-jason-solo.jpg)
![A photo of Annie Lennox performing](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/annie-green.jpg)
![A rendering of a proposed stage set by John Broderick for the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center in NYC](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Bway-Nightime-render-1024x715.jpg)
![A photo of Metallica performing on the Summer Sanitarium tour](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SANIT-DSC00977-KOPY-1024x685.jpg)
Lighting and Sound International
What his self-imposed rigor has left him with is an unusual color collection: pinks, ambers, blues, and greens that you’ll rarely if ever have seen before. The colors look like a Los Angeles sunset on a bad smog day.
![A photo of Madonna in a red kimono performing at the Grammys](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/036jb.jpg)
![A photo of Metallica performing at the Roman coliseum in Nimes France](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Nimes-France-2.jpg)
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![A photo of TIm McGraw and his band performing](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/McGraw2-1024x685.jpg)
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![A photo of musicians performing on the Josh Groban 2011 Straight to You tour](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/STRINGS-1.png)
![A photo of Metallica performing on the Death Magnetic tour stage](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DthMag-IMG_5796-FIXR-smaller-1024x640.jpg)
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![A photo of Metallica performing on the Summer Sanitarium tour](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/mtl-stadium-gold-fire-KOPY-1024x685.jpg)
Montreal Gazette
The best opening lighting display the Bell Centre has ever seen … The ceaselessly inventive lighting.
![A photo of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
performing in concert](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/tim-and-faith-1024x685.jpg)
![A photo of Metallica performing on an outdoor stadium stage](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GrennSkull.jpg)
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![A photo of Metallica performing on the And Justice for All tour](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Mtl-justice-full-stage-1024x692.jpg)
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![A photo of Metallica performing on the Through the Never tour stage](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_2052-1024x768.jpg)
![A photo of TIm McGraw and his band performing](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/D10C0111-1024x685.jpg)
![A close up photo of Courtney Love performing](https://johnbroderick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/coutrneylove-1.jpg)
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“The design has to fit in a variety of venues, in a variety of shapes, all around the world, and still maintain its integrity. It is an extremely complicated process, requiring relentless attention to detail so that nothing slips by. All of that is the easiest part for me, just hammering through the details to produce that look.”
The hard part, said Mr. Broderick, is coming up with the design itself. “As a designer, I have to release my subconscious mind to do what it has to do, let the idea assemble itself in my head. And then, take that idea and turn it into a produced show, and still maintain visual interest in every number.”